Today's Computing - A vision from 1950

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Wednesday, September 1. 2004

Today's Computing - A vision from 1950

Cringely has a recent interview with the father of not just the mouse, but of many of the concepts that today's computing is based on - Doug Engelbart.

We're talking pre-PARC here people; the year is 1950 in fact. The day after he'd proposed to his girlfriend, Engelbart had a vision of what computers could be like, driving to work.

If we were to give credit where it's due, then quite a lot should go to Doug Engelbart.

Although Slashdot has mentioned the historic and significant contributions of the Father of all Geeks, there is no shortage of people benefiting from the fruit of Doug's vision and hard work, who have never heard of him.

Posted by Danté Jones in Technology at 21:07 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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